Political Participation. Initially, states decided who could vote and for which offices This led...

Political Participation

Initially, states decided who could vote and for which offices

This led to wide variation in federal elections

Congress has since reduced state prerogatives through law and

constitutional amendments

1842 law: House members elected by district

15th Amendment (1870): seemed to give suffrage to African Americans

19th Amendment (1920): Women given suffrage

26th Amendment (1971): 18-year-olds given suffrage

Alleged problem: low turnout of voters in the U.S. compared to Europe

Data is misleading: it tends to compare turnout of the voting-age population; turnout of registered voters reveals the problem is not so severe

Real decline is caused by lessening popular interest and decreasing party mobilization

Some scholars argue historical voter turnout figures where skewed by fraud

Most scholars see some real decline due to several causes, including the difficulty of registration

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Inactives: rarely vote, contribute to political organizations, or discuss politics; have little education, low income, young, many blacks; 22 percent

Voting specialists: vote but do little else; not much education or income, older

Campaigners: vote, get involved in campaign activities, more educated, interested in politics, identify with a party, take strong positions

Communalists: nonpartisan community activists with a local focus

Parochial participants: don’t vote or participate in campaigns or political organizations, but do contact politicians about specific problems

Activists: Participate in all forms of politics; highly educated, high income, middle age; 11 percent

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Those with schooling or political information are more likely to vote

Church-goers vote more, because church involvement develops the skills associated with political participation

Men and women vote at the same rate

Black participation is lower than that of whites overall

Controlling for socioeconomic status, blacks participate at a higher rate than whites

Studies show no correlation between distrust of political leaders and not voting

More youths, blacks, and other minorities in population are pushing down the percentage of eligible adults who are registered and vote

Parties are less effective in mobilizing voters

Remaining impediments to registration have some discouraging effects

Voting is not compulsory, as it is in some other nations

Some potential voters may feel that elections do not matter

People can give money to a candidate

They can join political organizations

Citizens also engage in a wide variety of nonpolitical activities.

Americans vote less, but participate more

Americans elect more officials and have more elections

U.S. turnout rates are heavily skewed to higher status persons

Political Participation. Initially, states decided who could vote and for which offices This led...

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